Hectic Week

Last night officially wrapped up one of the more nutso weeks in my recent history. Work + Volunteering @ the Cinemania Film festival and trying to have a social life (Mumford and Sons concert + Friends + being interviewed for the Concordian) had left me tired and with and extremely sore back (which is actually getting me worried because it wont go away) so today is a chill day


Cinemania Montreal

Cinemania was awesome! Alot of early mornings (followed by late nights at the resto and then more early mornings) were kind of a killer, but they allowed me to really connect with the event organizers who were all super awesome ladies. I also allowed me to see a bunch of free films ( La Reine des Pommes (2/5), Bazar (3/5) Tout ce qui Brille (3/5) Sommeil Blanc (2/5), L'Enfance du Mal (3/5), Dumas (3/5), Illegal (4/5) and Potiche (4/5)) all in french with English subtitles. Having never volunteered at a film festival before I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed my experience. I'm told not all festivals are as well presented and I totally believe it. i am therefore excited to volunteer again and total wary of it at the same time.




Next on the docket was the Mumford concert. As usual they were amazingly breath taking.
Super big props as well to their opening acts this time around, King Charles and Cadillac Sky.

Caddilac was alot of fun but I cant seem to find them online, and King Charles was actually kind of amazing



He played the entire set by himself with just a guitar, except for the opening song which he did accapella and it actually stopped my heart and made me do a double take while in line for coat check.

But unfortunate by the time Mumford came on the same problem arose as last time: the crowd SUCKED! I don't know what is wrong with people these days but they lack any kind of concert etiquette. Drunks yelling, girls squealing, people interrupting the band. it was so frakin' annoying.

Also the show lasted 3 and a half hours! Which was awesome yet very exhausting.

So good week, glad it's over, back to applying for jobs.

Music

After 3 years of being in these guys, I so glad to hear that they are finally on the up! I was lucky enough to experience their "Gentlemen on the Road" tour, and I have to say that they are both gentlemen and extremely amazing live. Lucky for me I already have tickets to their next show in MTL, hope this time the crowd is better (not jokes we got sussshed at the last show, the crowd was balls) and a better opening band (coma inducing music to kill your children to) cause they bring enough awesomeness that it should follow them around as well.


Full EW interview under the cut!


Check out the vids! unlike my other brit obession Florence they make great ones! Woman makes great musicbut her vids (excluding comic love) are horrible

Throwback!

Who shot this and on what?! no seriously!

I rediscovered this video the other day when SM and I did a late 90's early 00's video night.



I used to love EVE6 (Fun fact the band was named after a character on X-files, no wonder I loved them so much) and this vid reminds me why. If I ever do a vid it's totally gonna rip this one off. The vintage toys the dynamic camera movement's the lighting and xtreme close ups, the cut off bodies and faces, just all totally work for me. I wonder if he actually wore the camera on a harness (how would it turn like that) or what, but I love it. I'm a sucker for the self reflexiveness of it all. This is one of those instances where the video makes me like the song more then I did when I first heard it.

+ bonus points cause the lead singers a redder